Means for dispensing toilet-paper



P. D. PARSONS. MEANS FOR DISPENSING TOILET PAPER;

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2, I916- Patnted 00p. 5,1920.

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' UNITEDVSTATES ATENTF OFFICE;

PHILIP D. PARSONS, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SCOTT PAPEIR,

' COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF .PENNSYLVANIA p MEANS r03 DISPENSING- TOILET-PAPER.

' Application filed June 2,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that a citizen of the UnitedState's, of Philadelphia, county of and .State of Pennsylvania, an Improvement in Means for Dispensing Toilet-Pa er, of whichthe following is a specificatlonl.

and resident Philadelphia,

My invention has reference to method and means for dispensing folded paper articles from cabinets, and

more particularly in re-. spect to what are. paper towels. Heretofore, in cabinets for dispensing interfold paper towels, thecxposed flap or tab of the lo-wermost towel, when pulled, will in the withdrawing of the said towel, bring into view and exposure a flap or tab of the next lowermost towel, and so on; but the objection to this the fact that a person may rapidly pull out all of the towels, to waste the articles because they Were too easy of withdrawal, The object of my ina cablnet containing thesaid tab or flap into an exposed position through a suitable aperture in the cabinet or case, whereby saidtab may be grasped and the towel withdrawn, said act bringing the tab of the next lowermost towel into position to be similarly concealed or protected but also adapted to be pro ected into an exposed condition as in the first instance by the operation of the aforesaid manually operable means.

My invention consists in the aforesaid method and means for dispensing paper towels on similar articles from an inclosed cabinet, whereinxthe pulling of one towel brings a tab of the next towel into a shielded position and then to be brought into an exposed position by the manually operable means, so that-there are two successive operations to position the flap of an inclosed towel whereby it may be positively withdrawn from the cabinet; all of'which is more fully set out hereinafter and defined in the My invent-ion will he better understood by Specification of Letters Patent.

1s1s.- Serial No. 101,203.

I, PHILIP D, PARsoNs,"

- part of a have invented known as interfold manner of' ispensing towels from :a' cabinet resides 111 I and the tendency has been,

at 8. cally and is held against outward 'in returning to its I Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

reference to the accompanying drawings, in which p i 4 Figure 1 is a front elevation of the lbwerdispensing cabinet (with a portion bro en away), embodying one form of my lmprovements'; Fig.2 is a sectional side view of the same; Fig. 3 is a view similar to that sectional side own in Fig. 3;

invention; Fig. 4: is a vlew of the construction sh opening or aperture 6 through which the tabor flap may be, projectedbv manually operated means. In Figs. 1 and 2, the lower extension 2 of the cabinet is provided with. a pivoted door or hinged portion 7, the same being hinged at the bottom as indicated This door 7 normally stands vei'ti by means of the heels 11 adjacent to the hinge point, which act as stopsto limit the outward movement of the tion 7 A spring 9 normally holds the part 7 in a vertical position, leaving a slight clearance above it to form the transverse slot/6 through which the paper tab or flap -may extend, as indicated .in dotted lines.

e devices shown in In .the operation of th 12 will hang down F igs, 1 and2, the tab below the support 5 so of the bin ed door or part 7, as more fully shown in 1 part 7 be pushedback into the dotted line position and then allowed to swing'forward door portion .will have flap or tab 12, and then initial position will push the flap 12 forward and hold it in a posiagain, said hinged passed back of the tion which projects outwardly through the said hinged porthat it comes back ig. 2. If'now the hinged door manually actuating solid to the dotted line position,

,the tab of the next sheet, if b I it attempted to pass ward over the support 5 and into the position indicated at 1J2. In this way there are two manual operations necessary to bring the tab 12- into a position that it may be grasped, the first of these being due to the manipulation in withdrawing the previous towel, and the second operation being in the' hinged door to bring the tab or flap 12 to the outside thereof.

In the case of the constructions shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pivoted hinged part 7 of Figs. 1 and 2'is modified in the form indicated at. 7 which constitutes a transverse hinged frame having a' forward projecting portion or blade 7" at its free end; spring 9 of any suitable construction may be employed to hold the pivoted transverse hinged frame 7 into a position back of the .depending flap 12 as shown. Moreover, the lower part 2" of the cabinet is formed rigid all the way. around and provides the permanent transverse slot 6 throu h which the tab 12 is to be projected. It wi 1 now be understood that when the hand wheel 14 is rotated to throw the pivoted frame"? from the Fig. 4, the part 7 of said framestrikes the tab 12 at a distance fromits end and forces it through the transverse aperture 6, as indicated in dotted lines, and whereby it may be grasped. The projecting blade end 7 of the frame 7 is formed with a hooked portion at 13, the edge of the blade 7 being bent backward as clearly indicated in Fig. 4. The purpose of this hooked shape or grooved edge is to 'rovide means which would receive and ioldany. reason through t e aperture 6 when pulling out the lowermost .sheet or towel. 'The operation of the hinged projector'frame 7 is had by means-of a milled hand wheel 14 on shaft 8 journaled in the bottom of the casing 2 and to which said projecting blade is secured, the turning of the. shaft operating to throw the blade end of the projecting frame into the dotted position, Fig. 4:, a ainst the tension of thespring 9 to roject t e end 12 of the towel through 0t '6, as indicated in dotted lines. When the hand wheel 14: is released, the sprlng 9 returns the projector frame into the position indicated in'solid lines, and the tab 12 of the next lowermost towel will be nging in position to be projected through the aperture 6 upon the next manipulation.

. Ref err1ng to igs. 5 and 6, the means for ,brmglng the tab 12 of the lowermost sheet into position to be grasped, consists of rollers 7"- hich may be spring pressed togethersufiiciently to create a fr1ction,'and

'7 as indicated in indicated in for sustainin a these rollers may be operatedby the hand wheel 14 of the outside of the case, ssuming the tab .12 to' be between the rollers Fig. -6, the turning of said rollers will bring the lower end of the tab down through the aperture 6 at the bottom of the supplemental casing 2 which-incloses the rollers, and the sheet may then' .be grasped by thefingers andpulled down between the rollers and withdrawn. In doing this, the sheet will pull down the bottom tab of the next lowermost'sheet and will draw the beginnin of it through the rollers, as ig. 6. It is not essential that this tab of the next sheet shall be drawn through the rollers, asit will sufliceif it rests upon them, as the turning of the rollers will-feed it down so that it may d I have illustrated the severa ways of the mechanical feeding of .the end of the tabs into position to be grasped, by way of example and not as restriction to the invention, as my improvements comprehend the employment of an mechanical devices for bringin the inter old tab through the casin so t at it may be grasped and the sheet manner that the withdrawn, but m such withdrawal of the sheet through the aperture 6 will not draw the tab of the next sheet through said aperture as has heretofore been customary, the essential feature of my 1nvention residing in the fact that a mechanical operatlon must, be performed in ad- -'dition to the manual act of pulling the paindividual sheet being per to insure each withdrawn. It is mainifest that where the sheets can only be withdrawn w'th this additional manipulation of the dispensing device, there will be a tendency to restrict wasteful pulling out ofthe sheets such as has heretofore been customary where one sheet after another could berapidly Pulled:

from the cabinet by merelygrasping the ends with the fingers, l I

I have described my improved method and means in that particularity deem tobe the best exposition of my mvene tion, and that which I prefer in eom'mei'cial practice, but I do not restrict or confine myself to'the minor secondary details as such variations may be resorted to as matters of mechanical skill and withoutv a departure from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z k In apparatus ofthecharacter stated, an inclosing case having a discharge aperture at the bottom and having supporting means sheets at a' 'istance above the dischargmg aperture so that the tabs of the sheets cannot fall by gravity,- said*case provided with supporting andguidmg means below the supports for the paper package and sepabe graspe which I.

stack of interfolded paper rate from the aperture and its walls for 'ating the tab of the next sheet above and holding the depending tab inposition close pulling it down over the supporting and to the discharge aperture, in combination guiding means into the initial mclosed and i with manually controlled mechanical means shielded positi0n.l 5 arranged below said supporting and guid- In testlmony of which invention; I here- 15 ing means and operable from Without the unto set my hand.' case for projecting a shielded depending tab. PHILIP -D. PARSONS. of the paper through the discharge aperture Witnesses:

whereby the same may be grasped for With- R M. HUNTER: 10 drawing the paper sheet and forcibly liber- FIDRENCBDEAOON. 

